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🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Rock Creek Park in Washington DC has all the usual city park things, biking, golf, |
0:06.4 | tennis courts. |
0:08.2 | But if you wander just a little bit off the path, you'll find something unexpected, something |
0:13.4 | we can say for sure that no other city park has, stones, gigantic, gigantic stones. |
0:24.4 | They are in 20 foot stacks piled up behind a maintenance shed. |
0:29.1 | And some of the stones are simple sandstone, some are marble, some have ornate cornices |
0:34.0 | and decorations, some are just big plain old slabs. |
0:38.2 | And they look like the ancient ruins of some lost city, which in a way is kind of what |
0:43.4 | they are. |
0:44.4 | Because they aren't just any stones, they're pieces of the capital building. |
0:48.9 | Yes, the United States capital building in Washington DC. |
0:55.6 | I'm Dylan Thuras, and this is Alice Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible |
1:00.8 | and wondrous places. |
1:02.4 | Today, a trip deep into the woods, to find out how pieces of one of the country's most |
1:08.9 | famous buildings wound up here. |
1:12.4 | That's after this. |
1:23.5 | If you have ever done a home renovation, you know it can be a hell on earth. |
1:29.3 | Your whole house is covered in dust, there is a constant loud banging sound in the background, |
1:35.6 | and there are so many, many moments when you ask yourself, what have I done? |
1:42.8 | And imagine, as often it feels like, that this renovation just never, ever ends. |
1:51.3 | The capital came about the 1790s, and it was never finished. |
1:55.8 | It's been continually under construction, repair and expansion for the last 200 years in |
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